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In a world transitioning to net zero carbon emissions, should South Africa push on to become an oil and gas leader, as proclaimed by Minister Gwede Mantashe?

Saturday, 22 May 2021 08:45 PM MYT French Prime Minister Jean Castex visits the Paris-Nice night train, at the Austerlitz train station, in Paris, on May 20, 2021. — ETX Studio pic Subscribe to our Telegram channel for the latest updates on news you need to know. PARIS, May 22 — The legendary sleeper train that whisked travellers through France to the Mediterranean for close to a century has returned to the tracks as part of a French government push to revive night train travel. Prime Minis...

Highlights of a must-view auctionCaxton Reporter Due to be held over two consecutive days, 17 and 18 May, the upcoming art auction offers a significant selection of modern, post-war and contemporary South African art. A walk-about among the lots of the upcoming Strauss & Co autumn sale is a bit like a journey on the Blue Train, watching the Southern African landscape flash past the window. There’s a quick view of a white stucco cottage, part of a Karoo landscape ( Train Passing through the Ka...

Highlights of a must-view auctionCaxton Reporter Due to be held over two consecutive days, 17 and 18 May, the upcoming art auction offers a significant selection of modern, post-war and contemporary South African art. A walk-about among the lots of the upcoming Strauss & Co autumn sale is a bit like a journey on the Blue Train, watching the Southern African landscape flash past the window. There’s a quick view of a white stucco cottage, part of a Karoo landscape ( Train Passing through the Ka...

As the cold season makes landfall, Metrorail commuters grow more concerned about their safety and the cost of alternative modes of transportation.

Kilo Bravo for BigTakeover.com) and a musician (playing guitar for The Silent Comedy). Most of the time, he’s working for someone else but in 2019, Lekas released his first book of poetry, Saturday Night Sage, featuring cover art by poster artist and painter Alan Forbes who has also done work for The Chris Robinson Brotherhood, Mudhoney, Faith No More. Interested in seeing how these poems would jump off the page, Lekas recorded five poems as spoken word tracks, sharing them with musici...

Curtis Fuller, one of the most influential trombonists in jazz whose career spanned nearly 70 years, has died. He was 88.

From left, trumpet player Freddie Hubbard, saxophonist Johnny Griffin, Curtis Fuller and bassist Reggie Workman, on stage at Town Hall in New York on Feb. 22, 1985. Trombonist and composer Curtis Fuller, a pivotal figure on his instrument since the 50s and a beloved mentor, passed away May 8. He was 88. His death was confirmed by his daughter, Mary Fuller, and by the Jazz Foundation of America. "His sound was massive, striking and immediate, a waveform that was calibrated to overload the senses...

Trombonist Curtis Fuller—RIP, Aged 86 Share The late Curtis Fuller had several connections to Denver and Colorado. Mr. Fuller visited KUVO Jazz several times and played in our former Phyllis A. Greer Performance Studio at our previous Five Points Media Center location. Curtis recorded with Colorado’s own Capri Records, 2 albums as a leader and another one as an accompanist for Keith Oxman, he also recorded a CD with Boulder’s Brad Goode. In Addition to his recordings, Curtis Ful...

May 8, 2021 Michael Dirda THE WASHINGTON POST – In the recent Washington Post poll to choose the greatest fictional detectives of all time, the top four vote-getters, tallied in descending order, were Armand Gamache, Sherlock Holmes, Harry Bosch and Hercule Poirot. Pfui, as Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe would say. Faced with a mind-boggling murder, would anyone turn to Louise Penny’s Gamache instead of Sherlock Holmes or to Michael Connelly’s Bosch over Hercule Poirot? I certainly wouldn’t. ...